Anthony Ray Hinton

“To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.”

“Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.”

“I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.”

“To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.”

“Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.”

“In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.”

“I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do.”

“A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.”

“The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.”

“The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.”

“Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.”

“What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.”

“Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.”

“I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.”

“My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.”

“When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody.”

“The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may not be where we want to be, but let's do what we can for one another.”

“I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?”

“My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.”

“My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.”